More time forthe science

Grants funding projects, which produce papers, posters, and talks. Meetings that generate tasks. Everything on LabTab is linked the way scientists actually think about it.

Import your papers and literature from Zotero or a BibTeX file.
Track papers, posters, and talks against the projects and grants that produced them.
Sync with Google Calendar and Outlook – so that your meetings stay in step with the calendar your team already uses - no learning something new.
Draft recommendation letters with the student's papers, posters, grants, and meeting notes already linked on the page.

Grants

NIH R01-CA-123456

Neural atlas · $500k · ends Jun 2027

Papers

Annotation transferCell Systems · 2025
Active-curation strategiesNat Methods · 2025
Cohort-3 QC preprintbioRxiv · 2024

People

members

2 postdocs · 6 PhDs · 4 MScs · 1 RA · 1 manager

Meetings

11:001:1 · Alexsupervision

14:00Group meetingweekly

16:30Paper clubjournal

Tasks

Submit Figure 3 draft
Review Alex PhD outline
Confirm microscope booking

Built for the whole lab

Your lab, on the same page.

Lab meeting notes are finished before the meeting ends, because everyone can collaborate on them together.

labtab.app / thomson-lab / notes / tuesday-group

Lab notes · Tuesday group meeting

28 Apr 2026 · 10:00

3 editing

BIAsk

Action items

Submit Figure 3 draft by Friday
Review qPCR controls with Mei

Discussion

Agreed to prioritise the Cohort 4 timeline ahead of the December review. Tim will draft the methods section.

Designed to be used quickly

Every page is a keystroke away.

Single-letter shortcuts for the sections you use ten times a day; ⌘K for everything else. Move around LabTab at the speed of thought.

labtab.app / thomson-lab

Tasks · open

5 open · 12 done

Submit Figure 3 draftHighTomorrow
Review Alex PhD outlineMedFri 26
Confirm microscope bookingMedMon 29
NIH RPPR draft → finalHighApr 30
Mei rotation scheduleLowMay 02

tPress t → Tasks

nPress n → Create on this page

mPress m → Meetings

⌘KPress ⌘K → Jump anywhere

Try it with your own BibTeX

Your week, at a glance

Know where the lab stands in thirty seconds.

What shipped, what needs your attention, and what's due before Friday – without the hour of inbox archaeology.

Shipped last week

Needs your attention

Due this week

It's the small things

Quality-of-life upgrades for a PI's daily workflow.

Too much PI time gets spent on admin that keeps them further from the science than they'd like. We've built LabTab to fix this.

Letters

Recommendation letters, half-written before you start.

The student's papers, posters, grants, and six months of meeting notes are in the draft the moment you open it. Have a letter skeletoned out before you even start writing.

Recommendation letter · Jane Chang

Draft ready

Jane joined the lab in 2023 and has since first-authored two papers, presented at SfN, and led the cortical-atlas harmonisation effort. Her qPCR protocol is now standard across three of our projects…

Already on the page

4 papers2 postersWellcome grant6 months of notes

Nudges

Never let the small things slip.

Birthdays, work anniversaries, conference deadlines, follow-ups – LabTab nudges you in the weeks before, not the morning of. The remembering-what-matters part of the job, automated.

Sarah's work anniversaryThursday

SfN abstract deadlinein 5 days

1:1 with Meitomorrow · 14:00

Supervision

Join 1:1s with full context on last week's meeting.

Last meeting's notes, completed tasks, and active project links, already on the page before you get started. No 'remind me where we got to?' at the start of every meeting.

1:1 · Alex Romero

Today · 14:00

Last meeting

Agreed to resubmit figure 3 by Friday
Discussed rotation-student supervision plan

Open tasks

Figure 3 revisions
Share thesis timeline

Atlas project

Beyond the lab

Share with collaborators who don't have a LabTab account.

Share specific meeting notes, grant submission drafts or projects with external collaborators. LabTab ensures they only see what you've shared, and access expires when you say so.

Share "Atlas – Methods v3"

labtab.app/r/m4g1c-l1nk-7f3a2c9Read-only

Expires in 7 daysRevoke link

Yours, portable, private

No lock-in, no surprises.

We believe your lab's data is fundamentally yours alone, and deliberately keep data in portable, open formats so that if you leave you can take it with you with zero hassle. LabTab provides full-lab data exports, individual meeting note/project/grant downloads, a public API for programmatic access should you want it, and a CLI.

Portability in practice

Every lab lives in its own isolated tenancy. No other lab – and no other lab's members – can ever see your records.
Request a ZIP of everything your lab has ever created – structured records and linked files kept together, ready for backup or migration.
Take a single record with you in the format that suits it – Markdown for notes, BibTeX for papers, iCal for meetings, JSON for everything.
Every entity over REST, with scoped personal keys and an OpenAPI schema for generating clients in your language of choice.
pip install labtab, pair it with your account, and run the common lab checks – meetings, deadlines, tasks – from your terminal.

Settings · Data portability

Export the Thomson Lab

One ZIP. Every record you've ever created. Human- and machine-readable. Free of charge, forever.

Markdown
meeting notes · tasks · grants
JSON
machine-readable archive
BibTeX
all papers with DOIs
iCal
every meeting + deadline

GDPR-compliant · no third-party tracking

For technical PIs

Script your lab the way you want to.

A Python CLI and a public REST API with scoped keys – for PIs who'd rather grep their lab than click through it.

~/labs/thomson-lab - labtab

WHEN TITLE WITH LOCATION TASKS

Mon 28 Apr 10:00 Lab meeting Whole lab (8) Huxley 401 2 open

Tue 29 Apr 14:00 1:1 - Tim Smith Tim Zoom 1 open

Wed 30 Apr 09:30 Atlas project review Tim, Mei, Alex Huxley 401 3 open

Thu 01 May 16:00 Wellcome grant prep Mei Zoom 1 due

Fri 02 May 11:00 Postdoc supervision - Alex Alex Huxley 211 -

5 meetings - 7 open tasks - next: today at 10:00

Why LabTab

Designed for the way PIs actually work.

You can integrate LabTab into your daily work slowly and over time, or all at once - whatever suits your lab best.

Built with PIs, not at them.

Every feature on this page was requested by a scientist working in a lab, and shipped not long afterwards. The roadmap is shaped 100% by scientists.

Up in five minutes.

No big config marathons, just sign in, paste in your lab website, and import your publications with a click. We haven't had a setup take longer than 10 minutes (yet).

You're the customer, not the product.

Your privacy is a fundamental right, and the deal is simple: you pay for the software, and that's it. Your records and files are never mined or monetised in any way – they're in open formats, and if you choose to leave your data is instantly exportable.

Give yourself your time back.

Spin up your lab on LabTab in five minutes. Import papers, invite your team, and get started in one click.

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